What eConnect can do

eConnect provides real-time access to back
office data. It offers a way to add up-to-date back office
information to existing front office applications like web
storefronts or service applications.

Share financial management data
across applications.

eConnect allows multiple
applications to share financial management data. The eConnect
interfaces can support a number of independent applications.
Changes to financial data in Dynamics GP are simultaneously
available to all applications with an eConnect connection to that
company in Dynamics GP.

Application integrations using eConnect include
the following benefits:

Reduce development time.

eConnect has a large number of integration
points for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Software developers can quickly
add back office integration to an application. This reduces cost by
simplifying the development effort while providing fast access to
Microsoft Dynamics GP data. eConnect also reduces development time
when the business logic contained in the back office is reused by
new custom applications.

An eConnect integration also reduces costs
by reducing data re-entry. An automated eConnect integration
between Microsoft Dynamics GP and a new or existing online
storefront, web service, or other data source eliminates the time
and cost of manually copying data.

Reuse existing development
tools.

eConnect allows software developers to
select their tool of choice when working with eConnect. Developers
can use Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures,
BizTalk, or MSMQ.

Leverage industry-standard
technologies.

eConnect includes
components for MSMQ and BizTalk Server, which are industry standard
tools that support integration between applications.

eConnect also uses XML documents to move
data into and out of Microsoft Dynamics GP. The XML documents are a
text-based representation of back office data. An XML schema
specifies the data that is included in each type of XML document.
This allows eConnect to provide back office integration to any
application capable of creating or consuming these XML
documents.